Mercedes was kind enough to stick a GoPro on the side of Lewis's helmet, and we get to ride onboard and wonder what it must have been like to race this car with its impossibly skinny tires and 475 hp supercharged 3.0-liter V12, slowed only by drum brakes, and with 111 gallons of highly potent methanol fuel.

Did I mention the H pattern in the gearbox is reversed, the brake pedal is on the right, and the gas in the middle? As Hamilton mentions, "There is a real possibility of hitting the wrong pedal here!"

Nico Rosberg was in the other car, which just happens to be a 1954 W196 like the one now holding the record as the most expensive car ever sold at auction, when it changed hands for close to $30 million last week.